Back in the sky

Tuesday was looking like a stellar day for Cayucos. I was even
thinking that a shear could happen. With my arm feeling 95% better I
tested loading the glider on my truck. That is actually the hardest part
of the whole day, and I was able to load it with no pain or issue. I
decided that I would try to fly and if my harness was pressing on my
collar bone too much I would just land.

I arrived in
Cayucos and Charlie was home so I picked him up and we went to get a
burrito. The ocean was looking calm and maybe blocked. It was pretty
warm out too.

I asked Charlie if he would like to take me
on a tandem paraglider flight since it was looking to light for the
hang glider. So we packed up the truck and setup his tandem. The flight
was short, but I have never flown in a paraglider before so it was a cool
feeling to be flying relaxing in a chair. A no step landing and I could
see white caps marching in.

We quickly went and got
his hang glider, ran the car up to the top, drove back down, left a car
at the LZ, and drove back up to the top. It was blowing about 20 at this
point. A little out of the North but not bad.

The
flight was awesome. Starting out with a flight over to the dam. Then the
back bowl where we tried to work the wave that was setting up. John
Hesh came to join us in the air. After a while I got up to 1600 and
decided to head south to Morro Rock. Having never done this I was stoked
how easy it was, even finding lift over the ocean. I arrived at the
"rock" at 1100. Soaring it for an hour and then landed down at the
parking lot where it was blowing about 25. Not much protection from the
wind, I strugled to get my glider back behind the bathrooms out of the
wind. Some ladies pulled up and offered to help. Then Rohen Hyland from
Big Sur showed up out of the choppy surf. Random who you run into right.
Got the glider put away and we went for fish and chips and beer.